Letter to Susan Collins

Senator Susan Collins, It is your duty as a senator to listen to and represent your constituents. By confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, you have largely failed your constituents, and therefore you have failed your job. In the past, you have voted against equal pay for women, you have voted to remove federal …

Call Them Out: Part Two – Set Fire To Them

'Set Fire To Them' is Part Two of 'Call Them Out,' an interactive art installation. 'Set Fire To Them' documents the destruction of a headboard embodying the souls of rapists, whose identities were wood-burned into the headboard by survivors. This piece is intended to offer survivors whatever they may need– space, peace, healing, reclamation, validation, …

“The Kiss, Dismantled” (2018)

~trigger warning: sexual violence, abuse~ Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" (1908) is known as an acclaimed artistic painting of two “lovers.” The woman is on her knees, and the man has his hands wrapped around her throat. It is often unknown and/or unspoken that Gustav Klimt sexually assaulted many of the women in his …

Call Them Out: Part One

Call Them Out was an interactive art installation featured in "In the forests: sexual violence and (y)our environment," a collaborative art show between feminist run New Fruit art collective and Hey Baby! Art Against Sexual Violence – Portland, ME – July 2017 Statement: “This ​piece ​is ​an ​invitation ​to ​explore ​strength ​through ​vulnerability. ​This ​calling …

The Survivor Manifesto

Written in 2017, The Survivor Manifesto is an anthology, uplifting and honoring the voices of survivors of sexual violence. Here is a PDF of The Survivor Manifesto. The Survivor Manifesto is a call to action and an act of resistance to patriarchal oppression and rape culture.  It is the elephant in the room stomping its …